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The Authenticator App Problem
2 days ago
Coaching vs Leadership
3 days ago
Team Emergence
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I Sent it to You
1 week ago
Shackleton’s Journey
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How do you measure Productivity?
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Skewed Adjective AI Analysis
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But what do you Own?
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I’m not doing that bad am I?
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The Last 10% of Any Project
My authenticator app is overflowing with sites – everyone wants a code for me to log in with now. Do they need the code? I don’t know. But now that one does it, they all do it. I am using different codes for different apps. We’re not solving the problem of authentication; we’re simply duplicating it across every piece of infrastructure we now touch. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
2 days ago
Coaching vs Leadership
Greg Thomas
Coaches provide direction, suggestions, mentoring, and guidance on how a problem can be solved. Leaders are the first to accept the words of the coach and work with the team, side by side, to implement what needs to be done. Sometimes one and the same, generally two, one sees things from outside of the team, one sees things from inside of the team. Both need each other to be successful. As soon as the coach and the leader understand that relationship, they are unstoppable. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or …
3 days ago
Team Emergence
Greg Thomas
You’re now a team until someone else jumps in. There are no teams of one, because it’s just you. When two people start doing things together, you have a start. When three people start talking through problems, you have a base. And when four people start moving in the same direction, you have an emergence. That’s a team. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
The Last 10% of Any Project
The Last 10% of any project is the hardest and takes the longest – mentally – of the entire project. I don’t know how long it will take you or what it takes to complete it. Only you do, all I know is the last 10% can take twice as long as the middle 80% and thrice of the starting 10%. The solution? Find a closer, someone who can take that last 10% over the finish line. They are in short supply, but when you have one, they will make every project succeed by finishing that last 10% that the …
Storms Expose the Cracks
And then it’s up to you to figure out how you’ll fix them. We’ve all had those repairs that we’ve pushed off because – “we’ll get to it someday”. And then the storm hits, and we think to ourselves – “someday was yesterday”. So now the question is, when is the next someday going to come, because we know the next storm is going to be just as rough. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
2 weeks ago
I Don’t Believe in Focus Time
I don’t get the concept of “Focus Time” in your calendar. I.e., signalling to everyone that this is when I’ll do work because that implies that the rest of the time that I am not working. Meetings have value when done right. Calls have value when done right. Standups have value when done right. Work has value when done right. The goal is to figure out how to stay focused and deliver. Move your meetings around. Select which ones you are going to. Drop the non-value activities. Your calendar can be lightweight but have plenty of focus time. Want more? …